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Equal Civil Partnerships and the Construction of the Cohabitant (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hayward, A. (2018, December). Equal Civil Partnerships and the Construction of the Cohabitant. Paper presented at Workshop on Frontier Research in Children's Rights and Family Law, University College Cork, Ireland

The Married Women's Property Act 1882 (2018)
Book Chapter
Hayward, A. (2018). The Married Women's Property Act 1882. In R. Auchmuty, & E. Rackley (Eds.), Women's Legal Landmarks: Celebrating 100 Years of Women and Law in the UK and Ireland (71-76). Hart Publishing

Twenty years of ‘Law and Finance’: time to take law seriously (2018)
Journal Article
Schnyder, G., Siems, M., & Aguilera, R. (2021). Twenty years of ‘Law and Finance’: time to take law seriously. Socio-Economic Review, 19(1), 377-406. https://doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwy041

This ‘state of the art’ essay provides a comprehensive discussion of the Law and Finance School (LFS) literature. We show that the first two decades of the LFS have focused on empirically investigating the question ‘does law matter?’ Yet, despite the... Read More about Twenty years of ‘Law and Finance’: time to take law seriously.

Debt in Just Societies: A General Framework for Regulating Credit (2018)
Journal Article
Linarelli, J. (2020). Debt in Just Societies: A General Framework for Regulating Credit. Regulation and Governance, 14(3), 409-427. https://doi.org/10.1111/rego.12219

Debt presents a dilemma to societies: successful societies benefit from a substantial infrastructure of consumer, commercial, corporate, and sovereign debt but debt can cause substantial private and social harm. Pre‐crisis and post‐crisis solutions h... Read More about Debt in Just Societies: A General Framework for Regulating Credit.

Protectionism and the EU market for corporate control: Is it possible to get the best of both worlds? (2018)
Journal Article
Mukwiri, J. (2018). Protectionism and the EU market for corporate control: Is it possible to get the best of both worlds?. European Company and Financial Law Review, 15(2), 308-338. https://doi.org/10.1515/ecfr-2018-0011

Recent reports of the Commission and the European Parliament have revisited the concerns of protectionism in the EU. This article discusses these concerns in light of the liberal and protectionist divide in the EU market for corporate control, focusi... Read More about Protectionism and the EU market for corporate control: Is it possible to get the best of both worlds?.

Shareholder protection, stock markets and cross-border mergers (2018)
Journal Article
Ahiabor, F. S., James, G. A., Kwabi, F. O., & Siems, M. M. (2018). Shareholder protection, stock markets and cross-border mergers. Economics Letters, 171, 54-57. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2018.07.013

This paper is the first one that uses a panel data of different types of shareholder protection in order to examine (i) the effect of such laws on stock market development and (ii) the convergence of shareholder protection laws through cross-border m... Read More about Shareholder protection, stock markets and cross-border mergers.

From same-sex marriage to equal civil partnerships: on a path towards ‘perfecting’ equality? (2018)
Journal Article
Fenwick, H., & Hayward, A. (2018). From same-sex marriage to equal civil partnerships: on a path towards ‘perfecting’ equality?. Child and family law quarterly, 30(2), 97-120

This article will consider the progress made towards achieving equality between same- and different-sex couples seeking formalisation of their relationships. It will do so by examining the extent to which the introduction of civil partnerships and sa... Read More about From same-sex marriage to equal civil partnerships: on a path towards ‘perfecting’ equality?.

Constitutional Rights in the Irish Home Rule Bill of 1893 (2018)
Journal Article
Allen, T. (2018). Constitutional Rights in the Irish Home Rule Bill of 1893. The Journal of Legal History, 39(2), 187-215. https://doi.org/10.1080/01440365.2018.1484324

In 1893, Prime Minister Gladstone introduced the second Irish home rule bill in parliament. The bill broke with tradition in Britain and the empire, as it included provisions from the bill of rights of the United States. Its significance was clear at... Read More about Constitutional Rights in the Irish Home Rule Bill of 1893.

Is There a Relationship Between Shareholder Protection and Stock Market Development? (2018)
Journal Article
Deakin, S., Sarkar, P., & Siems, M. (2018). Is There a Relationship Between Shareholder Protection and Stock Market Development?. Journal of law, finance and accounting, 3(1), 115-146. https://doi.org/10.1561/108.00000025

The paper uses recently created datasets measuring legal change over time in a sample of 28 developed and emerging economies to test whether the strengthening of shareholder rights in the course of the mid-1990s and 2000s promoted stock market develo... Read More about Is There a Relationship Between Shareholder Protection and Stock Market Development?.

Why do businesses incorporate in other EU Member States? An empirical analysis of the role of conflict of laws rules (2018)
Journal Article
Gerner-Beuerle, C., Mucciarelli, F. M., Schuster, E., & Siems, M. (2018). Why do businesses incorporate in other EU Member States? An empirical analysis of the role of conflict of laws rules. International Review of Law and Economics, 56, 14-27. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irle.2018.05.002

Research in law, political science and economics has taken a strong interest in the way companies strategically incorporate in foreign jurisdictions. However, the empirical research about corporate mobility in the EU has so far been limited in two re... Read More about Why do businesses incorporate in other EU Member States? An empirical analysis of the role of conflict of laws rules.

‘The admixture of feminine weakness and susceptibility’: Gendered Personifications of the State in International Law (2018)
Journal Article
O'Donoghue, A. (2018). ‘The admixture of feminine weakness and susceptibility’: Gendered Personifications of the State in International Law. Melbourne journal of international law, 19(1), 227-258

19th century international law textbooks were infused with the gendered personification of states. Legal academics, such as Johann Casper Bluntschli, John Westlake, Robert Phillimore and James Lorimer, relied on gendered personification to ascribe at... Read More about ‘The admixture of feminine weakness and susceptibility’: Gendered Personifications of the State in International Law.

The Misery of International Law: Confrontations with Injustice in the Global Economy. (2018)
Book
Linarelli, J., Salomon, M. E., & Sornarajah, M. (2018). The Misery of International Law: Confrontations with Injustice in the Global Economy. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198753957.001.0001

together three international law scholars, this book addresses how international law and its regimes of trade, investment, finance, as well as human rights, are implicated in the construction of misery, and how international law is producing, reprodu... Read More about The Misery of International Law: Confrontations with Injustice in the Global Economy..